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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually…
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Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they…
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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going…
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At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea…
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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time…
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put…
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A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and…
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Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's…
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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had…
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